On September 12, 2001, Bleeth was arrested in Romulus, Michigan, after her car pulled off the highway and wound up on a median on Interstate 94 as she and her future husband, Paul Cerrito, were heading to Detroit Metropolitan Airport. No other cars were involved.
quasi-. 1. a combining form meaning âresembling,â âhaving some, but not all of the features of,â used in the formation of compound words: quasi-definition; quasi-monopoly; quasi-official; quasi-scientific. Origin. < Latin quasi as if, as though, equivalent to qua(m) as + sÄ« if. Can be confused.
Quasi in rem jurisdiction. A quasi in rem legal action (Latin, as if against a thing) is a legal action based on property rights of a person absent from the jurisdiction. In the American legal system the state can assert power over an individual simply based on the fact that this individual has property (bank account, debt, share of stock, land) in the state.